Production Automation

Virtual Ticket's powerful production automation tools provide you with the ability to streamline and automate your creative and production work. Virtual Ticket includes powerful plug-ins for Adobe's Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, and the Mac OS X Finder, enabling users to perform time-saving actions directly from their native applications. Additional "Smart job tickets" with built-in scripts drive third-party products, such as Markzware's FlightCheck product, resulting in the automation of routine processes.

Work Faster with Integrated Application Support

Virtual Ticket includes automation plug-ins for QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and the Mac OS X Finder. These integrated plug-ins provide users with the ability to access Virtual Ticket's capabilities right from within their native graphics application or directly from the Mac OS X Finder. Look up job tickets, find digital assets, copy images from a job ticket, and much more - saving time and giving creative and production staff access to creative libraries and job tickets instantly.

Automate Routine Tasks

Get more done in less time by automating repetitive production tasks. Use pre-built Solutions Libraries or create custom job tickets with integrated scripts to drive your production software tools. Automate preflighting, color correction, image manipulation, or virtually any production task. Virtual Ticket is compatible with hundreds of AppleScript-able applications. Your scripts can even be stored centrally in the Virtual Ticket database, distributed, and then executed by individual client computers or offloaded to the server for processing.

JDF Enabled

Virtual Ticket includes a Job Definition Format (JDF) Solutions Framework for allowing administrators to map their Virtual Ticket job tickets to JDF job tickets. Now anyone in the workgroup can use Virtual Ticket job tickets or specify JDF parameters and pass those parameters to JDF compliant systems - including imposition and CTP solutions.

Virtual Ticket's JDF Solutions Framework allows Virtual Ticket to be your front-end graphical user interface to your JDF enabled production workflow. Without extensive programming skills, you can create JDF enabled tickets in Virtual Ticket that initiate JDF workflows and capture JDF generated outputs from other solutions.

Below are some of the JDF Solution Framework Features:

Electronic Job Ticketing / Interface

• Easy to use forms editor for creating job tickets and custom user interfaces
• Create custom electronic job tickets
• Define custom extensions to JDF
• Capture JDF specifications specific to your device

Digital Asset Management

• Automatically associate document files and other digital assets with job tickets
• Specify and reference files for use in the JDF workflow
• Generate document thumbnails and full size document previews

Workflow

• Construct and deconstruct JDF data
• Retrieve and document JDF device output
• JavaScript accessible JDF object mode

Archive Files and Lookup Metadata Directly from the Mac OS X Finder

Virtual Ticket with the Digital Storage Manager module includes the ability to quickly lookup file metadata and even archive files and folders directly from the Mac OS X Finder. Using an integrated plug-in for the Mac OS X Finder, users have instant access to the database.